McHale, Beverley have opinion on rough play in playoffs

A day after Warriors coach Mark Jackson complained that the Warriors’ used dirty tactics to rough up star guard Stephen Curry, Rockets coach Kevin McHale could not help but notice how times had changed.

“Night and day,” McHale said. “I’m not sure there was ever over the line in a playoff game. How can there be? You don’t like them. They don’t like you. Who’s making these lines? There were no lines. Just go play.”

Jackson did have one of his players, Draymond Green, take out Patrick Beverley in a regular-season game when the Rockets had tied the record for 3-pointers in a game with 23, saying he was “an old school coach.”

Beverley, however, said he did not mind the decision or the hard foul then or now, but did not see the Nuggets-Warriors game and did not know about the controversy.

“It’s playoffs now,” he said. “That just shows how good Stephen Curry is, if they did that. I don’t even remember our game (against the Warriors.) That was one of my first couple days here. It’s basketball. You move on.”